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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 15, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                R inside stripes o tips on driving safely during fog season Page 3 q Dodds planning new drug Survey Page 9 q mets beat astros 2-1 to take 3-2 playoff Edge Page 21 authorized unofficial publication for Thiu. Armid Fortl vol.45, no. 180 wednesday october 15. 1986 0 8693 a jewish Leader wins Nobel peace prize goes of holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel Oslo Norway a holocaust survivor Elie wic Sci cited for creating a message of human dignity from his humiliation in the nazi death Camps was awarded the 1986 Nobel peace prize tuesday. Elie Wiesel has emerged As one of the most important spiritual leaders and guides in an age when Vio Lence repression and racism continue to characterize the world said the citation from the norwegian Nobel committee. Wiesel 58, a naturalized american has written some 20 novels and books of essays about his experiences in world War ii concentration Camps about the condition of jews in the soviet Union and other human rights issues. He lives in new York City and holds a professorship at Boston University. Wiesel is a messenger to Mankind his message is one of peace atonement and human dignity. His belie that the forces fighting evil in the world can be Victo rious is a hard won by fico the citation said. His message is based on his own personal experience of total humiliation and of the utter contempt for humanity shown in Hitler s death Camps. The message is in the form of a testimony repealed and deepened through the works of a great author. Wiesel s commitment which originated in the sufferings of the jewish people has been widened to embrace All repressed Peoples and races the citation said. The peace prize is the second of this year s Nobel announcements. American biochemist Stanley Cohen see Nobel on Page 28 Elie Wiesel with wife Marion and son Elisha in new York after the Nobel peace prize announcement. Reagan says world could be nuclear free Washington up president Reagan re porting to the american people on a Summit that ended in frustration said monday night we Are closer than Ever before to agreements that could Lead to a safer world without nuclear  appearing on nationwide television from the office the night after returning from Helito for Fri Javick Iceland with soviet cad  Reagan said his ref Ajajj go rip his strategic defense initiative was  no dramatic agreements at see related Story Page 28. The president stressed that he will not give up Star wars just to get a new pact with the soviets. We will not abandon the took to Reykjavik than i i in miso Lwft prefer to agreement bad agreement to the United Reagan also said the soviets had Given no indication whether they will come to the United states for another Summit. On tuesday the associated press reported that Reagan s top advisers following up on his upbeat assessment that an arms-coatfalisllliltttalisfe15 Sli  h i hrs a.  next month. A Secretary of stale George Shultz said he s certain to 1 " f meet with soviet foreign minister Eduard Shovard Nadza when the two attend an International conference in two weeks in Vienna Austria the a said. With that said the presidential chief of staff. Don Ald Regan the arms control process will Start  Shultz and Regan appearing on the lbs morning see Reagan on Page 28 . Grants Extension to 5 ordered expelled Washington up the administration in a Post Summit gesture of Good will has granted the soviet Union a 5-Day Extension until sunday for five of 25 members of its . Mission who were ordered expelled the stale depart ment said tuesday. Department spokesman Peter Marti Nez announced the administration has informed Moscow that a sept. 17 order that 25 soviet . Mission diplomats leave the United states still stands. The expulsion order for the 25 Diplo Mats was to have taken effect oct. 1. But after president Reagan and soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev agreed to hold their Summit in Iceland a two week Grace period was agreed to by washing ton. It expired tuesday. The soviets replied that they would comply but they asked for the extensions that five of the 25 diplomats could catch the next scheduled Aeroflot flight from new York to Moscow sunday Martinez said. As a gesture of Good will we have granted their request he said. The administration originally ordered 25 soviet diplomats to depart because of espionage activity on March 7 and demanded that the soviets reduce the staffs of their . Missions by 40 percent to 170 accredited diplomats by april 1,1988. European experts predict Dollar will remain weak London up the . Dol Lar closed mixed on major european Money markets tuesday and brought predictions that it will remain weak As Jong As intervention by Central Banks is  the american currency strength ened in Frankfurt to close at 1.9814marks against monday s closing 1.9813. The German Central Bank stepped in to buy si.2 million to strengthen the Dollar. Sales of German Marks to . Personnel for personal use will be at the rate of 1.97 wednesday. See other conversion rates Page 27. The Dollar improved in , to close at 1.61 so Swiss francs against monday s final 1.6145. But the Dollar fell at the close in Milan Italy at 1,370.50 lire its Low est in Italy since the closing quotation of 1.354.95 lire on Jan. 17, 1983. The closing Price monday was 1,370.75. A trader in Zurich said of the Dol Lar s continued problems intervention was relatively minor in Dollar terms and the Dollar will remain weak and fall further As Long As intervention remains  credit unions serving the military overseas Page 13 a Erv  
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